1) to dissolve, disunite
    1a) (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish
    1b) metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success,
        bring to naught
        1b1) to subvert, overthrow
             1b1a) of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc.,
                   to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard
    1c) of travellers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the
        figurative expression originating in the circumstance that,
        to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts
        of burden are unbound and taken off; or, more correctly from
        the fact that the traveller's garments, tied up when he is
        on the journey, are unloosed at it end)